On this page you'll find 8 example sentences with Ennius. Discover how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Ennius in a sentence
Context around Ennius
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ennius
- In this selection, "ennius" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, verse, euripides, quintus, own, told and wrote stand out and add context to how "ennius" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include down from ennius in order and in verse ennius told how. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ennius" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ennius
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There are signs that Ennius varied the metre sometimes even within a composition. (13 words)
Quintus Ennius wrote a historical epic, the Annals (soon after 200 BC), describing Roman history from the founding of Rome to his own time. (24 words)
Persius in one of his satires (vi. 9) laughs at Ennius for this: it is referred to also by Lucretius (i. 124) and by Horace (Epist. (26 words)
In a lost passage of his Annals, a Roman history in verse, Ennius told how he had seen Homer in a dream, who had assured him that the same soul which had animated both the poets had once belonged to a peacock. (42 words)
Cicero called these local innovators neoteroi (νεώτεροι) or 'moderns' (in Latin poetae novi or ' new poets '), in that they cast off the heroic model handed down from Ennius in order to strike new ground and ring a contemporary note. (39 words)
His epic Annales, a narrative poem telling the story of Rome from the wanderings of Aeneas to the Ennius' own time, remains the national epic until it is later eclipsed by Virgil 's Aeneid (b. (35 words)
Example sentences (8)
Cicero called these local innovators neoteroi (νεώτεροι) or 'moderns' (in Latin poetae novi or ' new poets '), in that they cast off the heroic model handed down from Ennius in order to strike new ground and ring a contemporary note.
His epic Annales, a narrative poem telling the story of Rome from the wanderings of Aeneas to the Ennius' own time, remains the national epic until it is later eclipsed by Virgil 's Aeneid (b.
In a lost passage of his Annals, a Roman history in verse, Ennius told how he had seen Homer in a dream, who had assured him that the same soul which had animated both the poets had once belonged to a peacock.
In its earliest form, "grammar school" referred to a school that taught students to read, scan, interpret, and declaim Greek and Latin poets (including Homer, Virgil, Euripides, Ennius, and others).
One example of the evolution of the Latin verse form can be seen in a comparative analysis of the use of spondees in Ennius' time vs. the Augustan age.
Persius in one of his satires (vi. 9) laughs at Ennius for this: it is referred to also by Lucretius (i. 124) and by Horace (Epist.
Quintus Ennius wrote a historical epic, the Annals (soon after 200 BC), describing Roman history from the founding of Rome to his own time.
There are signs that Ennius varied the metre sometimes even within a composition.